<h1>New Cluster Guide</h1>
<p><b>Number of nodes:</b> how many nodes will be started for the cluster. One of the nodes will be the portal node and the others are computer nodes. </p>
<p><b>Maximal running hours: </b>How many hours the cluster will run. If the maximal running hour is 6, portal node will run 7=6+1 hours at maximum. All other nodes will run 6 hours at maximum</p>
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<p><b>Run application with high Input/Output:</b> If this is selected, the node type will be Standard Large Instance. It is High-CPU Medium Instance, otherwise. Please refer to <a href='http://aws.amazon.com/ec2'> here </a>for instance type description. We strongly suggest it be left unchecked unless you know what you are doing.</p>
<p><b>Kill the cluster if the cluster is idle and even if maximal running hours is not reached:</b> If the maximal running hour is 7, and your cluster becomes idle before that, in another word, all submitted applications finish, the cluster will be shut down if this is checked. Otherwise, cluster will not be terminated unless the maximal running hour is reached.</p>
<p><b>Blastable sequence database. Mount point will be /mnt/shared/data:</b> If you are going to run blast-related application such as blastall, megeblast, batchblast, mpiblast etc, you need to provide the formatdb-formatted blast database. The provided database will be available automatically for blast-related applications.  You can prepare your own database volume (Amazon Elastic Block Store), or create a volume from public <a href='http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=2261'> snapshot</a>. To prepare your own database, start an iNquiry cloud instance using your favorite EC2 tool such as <a href='http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609'> Elasticfox</a> and attach your volume to this instance. iNquiry cloud instance already provides formatdb and mpiformatdb binaries for you. If the database is intended for mpiblast, please use mpiformatdb to format database. Use formatdb, otherwise.</p>

<p><b>More volume:</b> You can supply more EBS data volume which will be mounted. The data in the extra volume will be part of your server data and accessed in the same way as other server data. </p>

<h1>view and manage cluster</h1>
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Started cluster and associated hosts can be viewed from your account. Besides this simple interface, you can always manage the cluster and EBS volume using your regular EC2 tool such as <a href='http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=609'> Elasticfox</a>
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